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Taking a resurrection and desperate immortality, the reborn heroine must feed on blood in order to survive, but the process of aquiring it fills her with despir and anguish. A dark, beatiful and tragic film, this is one of cult director Jean Rollin's most successful and commercial films. Remastered from the original negative, with the original trailer.

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The story..A tremor in a crypt where 2 grave robbers have broken into knocks over a barrel containing a toxic waste, it then revives a beautiful dead heiress. Later, with the help of her childhood friend she must quench her thirst for fresh blood and that means killing. Meanwhile an American woman has captured the woman on camera and decides to investigate. But all those in the village who see the picture say the woman died some time ago...

After seeing "Zombie Lake" some years back i was understandably put off Jean Rollin as a serious director. Although the film was hilarious, its poorness and total ineptness was indefensible. However, after recently seeing and enjoying "Grapes of Death" and "The Iron Rose" i was eager to give the director another chance. I was correct to do so as "The Living Dead Girl" is a good film with nice photography and a genuine morbid atmosphere. Although all logic is thrown out of the window in terms of story it's well acted with a convincing relationship between the 2 lead woman. The direction is impressive with a constant gloomy and dreamy feel and look. Also the gore scenes it must be mentioned are very gory. This is definitely the most bloody film i've seen by Rollin, and although the fx aren't great at times the brutal and frenzied death moments are memorable. I personally don't find this film dull and in the quieter times i was still fascinated.This release from Redemption is totally uncut and it's in French with English subtitles.

This is an early 80s French language horror that's kind of a love story, a bond between two sisters, a morbid and original take on a living dead movie that still remains fresh and original today, it's a very strange plot but works really well for the time and is backed up by a good cast of beautiful women (lots of full nudity) and has some very strong bloody gore scenes throughout provided your watching an uncut version, the blood sprays all over the screen and onto naked women, the movie has subtitles of course and runs approximately 91 min on DVD uncut, if you're a lover of gore and original 80's horror then this is certainly worthy of getting, great fun.

The redemption Blu-ray version is 90mins and runs the same as the R1 DVD version by redemption.The Blu-ray has many features too, documentaries and interviews, trailers and more.A worthy upgrade as the picture is great too on the Blu-ray.Blu-ray is region free and plays on UK players!

Boring film with the worst special effects ever. Dummy's head with tubes spurting blood. Toxic waste story line brings dead girl to life who needs you guessed it blood. Helped by her childhood friend who lures the victims to her mansion for a grisley end. Slow boring and pointless. I watched most of it on ff even then it dragged. Most films like this that are cr*p end up on the horror channel. My suggestion is wait till it's on there and save your cash. Even the nudity can't save this badly acted tripe. Sorry but that's my opinion. And I've got loads of these type of films.

I'm rather a latecomer to this movie, as I don't seek out Jean Rollin movies (based on what little I have seen), but as this is supposed to be something of a classic of it's type, I gave it a go - but it is certainly not converting me into a fan.

The slim story sees a dead girl named Catherine unexpectedly revived in her coffin when disturbed by grave robbers. She quickly attacks one of them, and then seemingly in a daze, makes her way rather unsteadily back to an empty castle which is her former home. Her newly living status comes to the attention of her former best friend Helene, who seems to think the best course of action is to keep Catherine hidden in the empty mansion, rather than seek help - even despite the realisation that her friend craves the taste of fresh blood!

I was really expecting something more stylish from this movie due to it's reputation, but I have to say I think it's really poorly made. Jean Rollin was no genius, if movies like this are the evidence. Several shots are out of focus, the acting is poor, the dialogue stilted and the gore effects are downright terrible. You can clearly see the tubes that squirt blood from a throat in one shot, and the bag that Catherine is squeezing in her hand to squirt gore from a stomach wound in another. All Rollin seems to be interested in is keeping his actresses nude, for as often and as long as possible. The two leads are both very attractive, and the ornate mansion is very picturesque, but that doesn't mean that Jean Rollin is using any talent to show that off. Anyone who is not part of the main cast is so obviously an amateur, and the direction of scenes involving extras is terrible - they continually stare directly at the camera, in almost evert shot. I guess the lighting is pretty enough in daytime scenes, but at night, everything is floodlit by flat, harsh industrial lighting. And the castle's underground vaults seem to have enough light to grow tomatoes in!

I also read that the portrayal of the relationship between the two women is strong enough to carry the film, but again, I don't think this is true either. As Catherine becomes more and more aware of what she is, things get more interesting, and there are moments that hint at some depth, but these are few. In conclusion, I am amazed that people rate this movie so highly. I think it is average at best. It has a lot of nudity, which seems to please a lot of viewers, but having acting and special effects that are as downright poor is they are here, strips this effort of any redeeming value.